Roget's Thesaurus

#157. Power

Nouns

power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy etc. 171; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority etc. 737; strength etc. 159. ability; ableness etc. adj.; competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) 698; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence etc. 175. pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae [Lat.], vis mortua [Lat.], vis viva [Lat.]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire. capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Lat.]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility.

Verbs

be powerful etc. adj.; gain power etc. n.. belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can, be able. give power, confer power, exercise power etc. n.; empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen etc. 159; compel etc. 744.

Adjectives

powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty. forcible etc. adj.. (energetic) 171; influential etc. 175; productive etc. 168.

Adverbs

powerfully etc. adj.; by virtue of, by dint of.

Phrases

a toute force [Fr.]; dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen [Gr.]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [Lat.]; fortis cadere cedere non potest [Lat.].